Remained Quotes
499 quotes by 428 authors
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At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or…
— Jon Krakauer
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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.
— Brennan Manning
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with…
— Saint Augustine
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
— Alexandre Dumas
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I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head…
— Maria McCann
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I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
— Stanislaw Lem
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...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer.…
— Brandon Mull
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And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick…
— Suzanne Collins
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If ever you are tempted to become discouraged or to lose faith, remember those faithful Saints who remained true in Kirtland. Hold on a little…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were…
— Hermann Hesse
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And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together…
— Jeanette Winterson
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As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the…
— W. Bruce Cameron
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
— Jack London
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Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in…
— Paul Celan
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Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and…
— Jane Austen
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O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they…
— Jonathan Stroud
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